Notices by Ciara | Ciaraíoch ? (ciaraioch@mastodon.ie)

Feels like since everyone just decided the pandemic is over people have somehow forgotten normal sickness etiquette. They're coughing without covering their mouths, visiting elderly people while sweating with fever, simultaneously sneezing and enthusiastically licking strangers' nostrils, what is going on

@NeilBlack I wish common sense was more common.

For anyone who thinks they're the same thing - an artist might look at or imagine a scene, adjust the colours so they complement or clash with each other to enhance the mood they want to create, move things so it flows or jars, add things to make it funny or poignant, breathe their own experiences and desires and fears and humour into it, tap into something childlike or sad or silly or beautiful, and use their own body and mind to realise it. AI image generators replicate pixel patterns.

#Art

Christmas is a great time to give the gift of art and support the work of your favourite artists! And if they're not available I also have some stuff. https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

#Art #MastoArt #Ireland #MastoDaoine

Less than two weeks until final Christmas orders (and earlier for Europe) - if you're looking for Irish art this Christmas, https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints has high-quality giclée prints of Irish mythology and folklore, Irish wildlife and history, Irish rebels and feminism, and cartoons, delivered in eco-friendly packaging. Your support means I can continue to be very annoying online, and I appreciate it hugely.

#Art #MastoArt #IrishGifts #IrishArt

People who want everyone to delete Twitter don't seem to realise that a lot of us still use it for important things, like keeping in touch with all the friends who haven't moved to other platforms, or to maintain a carefully cultivated level of constant, anxious dread

Annoying how it's assumed that when women say we "can't find anyone to date" that we mean "no-one will date us", when what we actually mean is that we can't find anyone we'd WANT to date, because he's not on dating apps, and he's 1916 Rising socialist revolutionary James Connolly

Little sketch of one of our local birds, the clamhán (buzzard)

#Art #MastoArt #Sketch #Birds

Is there any app or site that analyses your followers on Twitter and allows you to identify and block ones likely to be bots - not just coming up with what percentage of your followers aren't real? Since yer man took over myself and a lot of other people are getting something like 50-100 bot followers (almost all crypto/NFT) a day and going through them to manually block them is incredibly tedious. "Millions of new active users since Elon Musk arrived" indeed ?

Think the main difference between the two platforms is that on Twitter when you make a joke you get one haha and two death threats, whereas on here you get one haha and someone earnestly explaining the 6th century origins of the specific road that particular chicken crossed. Yet to decide which is more distressing.

The amount of people replying to explain that death threats are actually more of an issue than people sharing history facts is 1. the point of the joke and 2. going to make me smother my phone with a pillow

*gently holding the faces of people on Mastodon who take every joke or light-hearted comment extremely literally or personally* why are you like this. why can't we have fun.

Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."